Slooooow mondays

[#1]

Here we go again, impossible ping for gaming !!  Seems like i have to gateway hop almost everyday to get decent pings , but they're not usually this bad !!
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
  1    2 ms    1 ms    2 ms  home [192.168.1.254]
  2    46 ms    31 ms    37 ms  lo0-plusnet.pcl-ag01.plus.net [195.166.128.27]
  3  136 ms  106 ms  137 ms  gi1-2-803.pcl-gw1.plus.net [84.92.5.57]
  4  309 ms  240 ms  200 ms  te2-2.pte-gw1.plus.net [212.159.0.186]
  5    31 ms    56 ms    36 ms  vl22.thn-gw1.plus.net [212.159.4.3]
  6  122 ms  139 ms  133 ms  te2-3.thn-gw2.plus.net [212.159.1.58]
  7  135 ms  177 ms  141 ms  rt0.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.239.25]
  8  796 ms  216 ms    45 ms  212.58.238.133
  9    33 ms    35 ms    31 ms  virtual-vip.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.138]
Trace complete.
C:\Documents and Settings\Haydn>

[#2]

deleted & posted in http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,82228.0.html

[#3]

The interesting aspect of that trace is that the delays are inside the Plusnet network. I thought all the work they trumpeted about having completed in yesterdays service status post was supposed to fix that!

[#4]

Fixing the network wasn't really to make sure ICMP packets travel across the network as fast as possible though. The last hop is fine, and that packet is still travelling across the same servers - I suspect the slowdowns are in the ICMP response from the gateway rather than the packet travelling across the network.